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Fried Pork Slices in Sweet & Sour Sauce (Guo Bao Rou)

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Guo Bao Rou is a classic dish in Notheastern Chinese cuisine. I still remember when going out with my friends to have northeastern cuisine, we would definitely order this Guo Bao Rou.

1. Cut pork into medium slices.

2. Sprinkle salt and a little black pepper. Mix them well.

3. In a small bowl, add in 100g starch (better be potato starch). Then add in water higher than starch. Stir well. Then let it rest for 10-20 mins. Starch will stay in the bottom layer and water in the upper.


Pour the water out.

4. Prepare carrot shreds, scallion shreds, ginger, and minced garlic.


5. Heat some oil in a skillet. Dip pork slices in wet starch and then dry starch. Gently put them in the oil. Deep fry till the shell becomes hard and lightly golden brown.

6. Leave a little oil in the skillet. Heat again. Put all the ginger, garlic, carrot and scallion into skillet. Sauté a bit.

7. Add in 50 g white vinegar and 50 g sugar. Stir gently to let sugar dissolve.

8. When the sauce starts to condense, add fried pork slices into skillet. Keep stirring to let each slice be coated with sweet and sour sauce.

When sauce almost dry, turn off the stove.

Serve hot.

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Pork Chop With Plum Sauce

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I think plum sauce is a good choice for pork due to its sweet & sour taste.

1. Sprinkle salt and black pepper over pork chop. Give pork a bit massage.

2. Heat oil in the pan. Fry pork chop till both sides turn golden brown.

3. Add in 2 or 3 garlic cloves. Fry for another 1-2 mins.

4. Put in 2-3 tablespoon plum sauce. Also pour in 3 tablespoon hot water.

5. Simmer pork chop for 2-3 mins. Turn to high heat. Reduce sauce till condensed.

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Curry Pork Chop Rice

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I have cooked fried pork chop for many times.

1, sprinkle salt and black pepper over pork chop.

2. Coat pork chop with flour.

3. Dip in egg.

4. Coat them with bread crumbs.

5. Deep fry till golden brown.

For the curry part, I use curry powder.

1. Add 2 tablespoon curry powder in pan.

2. Add in 1/2 cup water and 2 tablespoon honey. I used honey to make it less spicy. If you want it to stay spicy, you can add less honey.

3. Bring to boil. Then reduce to condensed.

Put fried pork chop and rice in a plate. Top rice with a fried egg. Then pour curry sauce over it.

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Ribs & Cheese (Dip Ribs in Cheese)

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1. Prepare marinade:

3-4 chopped garlic cloves, 1 chopped red chili, a little chopped ginger, 1 tablespoon light soy sauce, 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce, 1 tablespoon oyster sauce, 1/2 tablespoon sugar.

Mix all the ingredients in a small bowl.

2. Put ribs in a zip bag, pour the marinade in. Rub ribs with hand. Let them be marinated for 2-3 hours.

3. Heat a pan. Put ribs into the pan. Fry them till golden brown on edges.

4. Pour in hot water reaches 1/2 height of ribs. Simmer for 20-30 mins.

5. Turn up the heat and reduce sauce.

6. Wrap the plate with aluminum foil. Place ribs on it. Sprinkle white sesame.

7. Put cheese on the other side.

8. Carefully put the foil into pan. Heat till cheese melted.

Dip ribs in melted cheese.

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Crispy Pork Belly

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1. Put pork belly in a deep pot. Add in enough water. Heat on the stove. Bring to boil for 5 mins.

2. Take the pork out and drain.

3. Use a toothpick to poke the pork skin several times.

4. Preheat oven to 200 degree C.

5. In a bowl, mix 1 tsp Chinese cooking wine, 1 tsp light soy sauce, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp five spice powder. Brush marinade on the meat.

6. Use foil to make a square box and put pour the marinade into it. Place the pork belly in it with the skin side on the top.

7. In another bowl mix 1 tsp white vinegar, 1 tsp salt and a little baking powder. Brush it on the skin.


Leave it for 30 mins.

8. Sprinkle coarse salt on the surface with a thick layer.


9. Put into oven and bake for 40 mins.

10. Remove the salt layer. Turn to the highest heat. Poke the skin again. Bake for another 20-30 mins. Till the skin turns golden and hard.


Cut with a sharp knife. Since I don’t have one. It’s really hard to get it nicely cut.

It tastes great. Skin is really crispy and meat is tasty.

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Pork Chop With Roasted Apple

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1. Cut an apple into 8 parts, remove the core.


2. Line them in the baking pan. Sprinkle mixed herbs, a little salt. And pour in some white wine.


3. In the oven, turn to 220 degree C. And roast for 10-15 mins.


4. Coat pork chop with flour. Shake off the excess.

5. Heat a little olive oil in the pan. Fry the chop till each side turns a bit golden brown.


6. Pour in red wine. Simmer a little while to let the wine reduce into thick and sticky sauce.


7. Place pork chop in the plate. Glaze with sauce.


Serve with roasted apple.

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Spare Ribs Soup ( With Red Dates & Ginkgo)

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1. Rinse spare ribs in water.

2. Put ribs in a deep pot. Add in enough water higher than ribs.

3. Turn to high heat. When water boils, skim it. 

4. Turn to low heat. Add in 2 or 3 red dates. 

5. Cover the pot with lid. Let it slow cook for at least 40 mins. I let it boil for 1.5 hrs. The meat will become very soft and come off from the bone very easily.

6. Add in ginkgo. I read on internet that it could be poisonous if you have too many ginkgo one time. So I just put in 10 ginkgoes. And boil for another 15 Mins.


Serve hot.


You can also sprinkle a little spring onion.


Very nice soup!

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Rou Jia Mo – Chinese Hamburger 

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Rou Jia Mo is one of typical Shananxi food in Chinese cuisine. It’s also one of my most missing Chinese food. There are two parts of this dish: Mo (bun outside) and Rou (meat inside).

For the Mo part:

Flour 250g

Yeast 3.5 g

Baking powder 1.5 g

Warm water 135g

Salt 1.5g

Mix all the ingredients above into a dough. Place it in a bowl. Cover with plastic wrap or wet towel and let it rest for 1 hour.

For the Rou part:

Pour enough water in a pot. Also put pork belly in. When water boils, turn off stove and take pork out. Rinse and drain.

Place pork in a deep pot again. Pour in enough hot water. Add in 2 tsp light soy sauce, 1.5 tsp dark soy sauce, 2 tsp cooking wine, several sugar cubes, Chinese scallion, ginger slices, star anise, bayleaf  and 1 tsp salt.

First turn to high heat. When it boils, turn to low heat. And braise for 2 hours. So that pork will be really really soft and can melt in your mouth.
While pork is on stove, prepare Mo again.

Devide the dough into several small ones. Brush them with a little oil on the surface. Let them rest for 15 mins. Roll it with rolling pin into a long one. Then roll from one side to the other. Make it into a small dough ball again. Let them rest for another 10 mins. Then press them gently to become thinner.

Heat a pan on a stove with medium heat.

Place Mo into the pan.


Fry each side for 2-3 mins or till lightly golden brown.


Preheat oven to 150 degree C. And bake for 10 mins.


Then the Mo is ready.

Back to Rou again.

When the pork is cooked.


Chop them into a bit minced. Add in a little chopped spring onion or green chili. Sprinkle pork’s sauce.


The Rou part is also ready.

Cut Mo in the middle, not completely cut them open.


Stuff pork inside.


And the Rou Jia Mo is ready.


I must confess that mine Rou Jia Mo is not as good as the ones I had in China. But my husband still loves them.
Original recipe:

http://www.xiachufang.com/recipe/132373/

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Dark Braised Pork With Quail Eggs

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It contains both pork and quail eggs. It’s absolutely one of my husband’s favorite dishes.

1. Boil some water in a pot. Put a strip of pork belly in water. Turn off the stove till water boils again.

2. Take pork out. Rinse and drain. Then cut it into medium chunks.

3. Heat a little oil in the pan. Put pork in. Fry pork belly till both sides turn golden brown.

4. Add in 1 tsp light soy sauce, 1 tsp dark soy sauce, 2 tsp sugar. Stir fry evenly.

5. Pour in enough hot water covers pork. Also add in 1 or 2 star anise, and ginger slices. Cover the pan with lid.

6. In another pot, boil some water. Then put quail eggs in. Boil for 5 mins. Soak them in cold water and remove the shell.

7. When the sauce in pan reduces to 1/3. Put quail eggs into the pan. Stir with pork. Cover the lid and simmer till sauce becomes condensed.

8. Turn up the heat. Keep stirring to let pork and quail eggs be coated with dark sauce.

Serve hot.

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Fried Pork Slices in Sweet & Sour Sauce (Guo Bao Rou)

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Guo Bao Rou is a classic dish in Notheastern Chinese cuisine. I still remember when going out with my friends to have northeastern cuisine, we would definitely order this Guo Bao Rou.

1. Cut pork into medium slices.

2. Sprinkle salt and a little black pepper. Mix them well.

3. In a small bowl, add in 100g starch (better be potato starch). Then add in water higher than starch. Stir well. Then let it rest for 10-20 mins. Starch will stay in the bottom layer and water in the upper.


Pour the water out.

4. Prepare carrot shreds, scallion shreds, ginger, and minced garlic.


5. Heat some oil in a skillet. Dip pork slices in wet starch and then dry starch. Gently put them in the oil. Deep fry till the shell becomes hard and lightly golden brown.

6. Leave a little oil in the skillet. Heat again. Put all the ginger, garlic, carrot and scallion into skillet. Sauté a bit.

7. Add in 50 g white vinegar and 50 g sugar. Stir gently to let sugar dissolve.

8. When the sauce starts to condense, add fried pork slices into skillet. Keep stirring to let each slice be coated with sweet and sour sauce.

When sauce almost dry, turn off the stove.

Serve hot.